The Invention of Globalisation

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It was throughout the 15^th century that most of the different regions of the world became connected to each other. Rather than recount this history from the perspective of a triumphant Europe, a collective work, edited by Patrick Boucheron in 2010, suggests that we shift our point of view by following the traces of other possible globalisations.

Patrick Boucheron is a lecturer in medieval history at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. As a specialist of the urban and artistic cultures of Italy in the 14^th and 15^th centuries, he edited in 2010, together with Julien Loiseau, Pierre Monnet and Yann Potin, a book entitled Histoire du monde au XVe siècle (A History of the World in the 15^th Century) (Fayard, 2009). Nearly seventy historians took part in this collective adventure, which offers an ambitious journey through the places and times of globalisation in the 15^th century, from the death of Tamberlain in 1405 to the crowing of Charles V in 1520. This work is inspired in particular by the findings of world history and of connected history.

The following interview was conducted in 2010 and is now published in Books&Ideas with English subtitles.

Video 1: Can we talk about “globalisation” in the 15^th century?

Video 2: What parts of the world were driving this globalisation?

Video 3: Was this globalisation European?

Video 4: Were people in the 15^th century aware of this globalisation?

Video 5: Was this globalisation mainly economic?

Video 6: Did Europe explore the world to overcome its weaknesses?

Video 7: Did 15^th century globalisation entrench particularisms?

by Nicolas Delalande, 25 July 2013

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